Huntsville gazette., 1887-07-16
SOUTHERN GI.EANINGS,

Lightning struck IA tree against wkichia
negro boy was leaning near Atlanta, Ca,
the othe' day. He whirled around two
or three times and ran. After running
some distance he stopped and went
through the same spinning motion. He
has been crazed ever since.
Az Tennessee mountaineer recently
found, under lelge of rock, the sword
of a Confederate eff .er 1t proves to
have belonged to Captain who was killed
in sklrmisn, and one of his command
hid it hat it IN ght not fall into the hands
Of NJ Union forces.
j. B. Scott, Of Americus, Ga, a few
days since. found his mule apparently
dead in its stall He put chain about
its neck and dragged it two miles to the
woods and LETT it for the buzzards to feed
upon The next morning the mule stood
at the lot gate waiting to be fed.
Rain fel in torrents in the vicinity of
Louisville, KY, a few days ago. The
storm was accompanied by great ella ps of
thunder and a vivid play of electricity.
Al Harrod's Creek, about eleven miles
distant, Emile Galloway and Claude Sum-
mers, two boys who were at a picnic,
were killed by lightning. The boys were
each seventeen years old and were sons
of well-known people of Louisville. They
had taken refuge in the hollow trunk of
q large sycamore. The tree was split in
two by lightning, followed by a loud clap
OF thund r. NJ Galloway was killed in
stantly. His companion lived long enough
to be carried into a DOCTORS office near
by. where he expired in a few moments.
Cam len. G e enbriar, Mout Eagle and
Seviervilie, Tenn; Ellesville Depot,
Good man, Martin and Sp9rta, Miss;
Bardwel', Central City, Hillsbrough.
Junction City and Williams burg. KY, and
Wilson Station, La, have been made pos
tai money order offices.
Ex-Mayor R E. Nichols, Of Cochran,
La, few days since struck Constable
Meachman on the head and killed him.
They werA quarreling over a business
matter. Nichols is hiding out.
The message sent o Governor Krott of
Kentucky by the chief of the posse who
wiped out the Tolliver gang will take its
place alongside OF Veni. vidi, vici, and
other lac mic statements of victory. II
was simply: Il done it.r
George s. Turner, the wealthy owner o.
a cotton-mill' in Spartanburg County, S.
c., few DAYS since shot and killed one
of his employees named Julius Metzkia
who had made a claim for wages which
the woods, and the sheriff, with posse,
was in pursuit.
Primus Jones, of Baker County, Ca,
has for the twentieth time marketed the
first bale of Georgia cotton, which was
classed as low middling, and he will thus
continue to wear the bslt as the champion
cotton raiser of the State.
Milo Thomas, a. young white man, was
killel at Augusta, GA, few days ago.
by fourteen-year- negro boy. A dis
pute arose bout cigarette picture be-
longing to the boy. Thomas slapped the
bog and was killed by a stab from a dirk
in the hands of the latter. 3.
Alfred Soyeck, a German employed on
the farm of r. J. Sutherland, three miles
from Wilmington, n. c., @ few days ago
sh t a man named Mills, the superintend-
ent of the farm with a pistol three times.
Soyetk then went to his room and shot
himself through the heart, dying instant
ly Mills is not seriously hurt, and will
recover
The trial of Geo. H. Mi Ellington, at Mem
phis, Tenn. for the murder of Thomas o.
Kennedy at Millington Station on Mavi16
last, was concluded by the jury return
ing verdict of guilty and sentencing the
defendant to the pepitentiary for fifteen
years.
@ Sam Breen and Eph Jones were terribly
whipped by mob at Graysville. Ga, a
few days ago. Breen had made dis.
paraging remarks about res pectable
young lady of Graysvile on July 4, and
a mob was org lnized to resent the insult.
M,rmon missionaries from Utah have
been laboring for some time il Georgia
and South Carolina with such effect that
States by bands of ''re yulars." They re-
fuse to depart, however, and it Is inti-
mated that Kuklux methods VIII be
adopted in order to rid the country Of
their presence. ...r,
y Dr. z. Standiford, of Louisville, one of
the wealthiest men in Kentucky, and
candidate fer the United States Senate to
succeed Mr.. B eek, was married at Paducah
a few days ago to Miss Lorena Scott, an
estimable young lady. The ceremony was
quiet one. D.. Standford has been
married three times and has grown chill.
dren. g
y John w. Maclzey. the engineer at the
Brush Electric Light Comp pany's works
in Memphis, Tenn, was caught in the
betting few days ago and was kllel by
being drawn under the f1v-wheel. The
deceased was formerly engineer at the
Gus ~ ouse and had only been EN-
ployei at the electric works few days.
He leaves a wife and two children.
Data recently collected as to the wages
of skilled and unski lei labor in the South
show that the prevailing averages are uot
much below those of the North. Unskilled
labor commands about 81 dav, on an
average. W lie skilled labor ranges from
s. % to 5 '.45 per day. 1t will be seen that
the negro laborer Of the South is not so
much worse off than the white laborer Of
the North as Mr.. Blaine has tried to make
the country believe.
The sergeant at the Nashville (Tenn.)
poll e-station heard a scream in behind
the bars, the other night, and, running
bark, found Pleas Terry, an old negro,
trying to hang small white bov, who
was also a prisoner. The negro made
a rope out Of blarkst, and, catching the
boy, proceeded to hang HIM to the bars OF
the cell A woman who was scrubbing
gave the alarm. The boy was uncon-
scious when rescued by the sergeant. Ter.
ry was examined by Dr. Mitchell, who
pronounced him insane.